splatter

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

   “He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.”

2. (attributive, uncountable)A genre of gory horror.

   “splatter film; splatter movie”

3. (uncountable)Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

verb

1. (intransitive)To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

   “The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.”

2. (transitive)To cause (something) to splatter.

   “He splattered paint onto the wall.”

3. (transitive)To spatter (something or somebody).

   “The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!”

   “Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.”